Summary

Robbins and Coulter's best-selling text demonstrates the real-world applications of management concepts and makes management come alive by bringing real managers and readers together. As it successfully integrates the various functions of management, the book establishes a dialogue with managers from a variety of fields.The authors examine managerial issues concerning defining the manager's terrain, planning, organizing, leading and controlling.For managers of all kinds.

Table of Contents

Specific Changes to Chapters

Introduction to Organisations and Management

Additional text on viewing the manager's job from the perspective of managing systems as well as taking a contingency view on management in order to manage in different and changing situations

Both these perspectives have been introduced in the first Chapter to reflect today's complexities involved in managing

The Evolution of Management

In addition to covering the development of management throughout the 20th century, Chapter 2 now contains a discussion about current trends and issues in management

These are globalisation, workforce diversity, information technology, continually learning and adaptive organisations, TQM, dismantling the hierarchy and ethics and trust

Organisational Culture and Environment: The Constraints

Organisational culture is beefed up with a new expanded section

The Section on the business environment has also been updated to reflect some of the current issues that influence organisational life such as the economic situation in South-east Asia as well as global and technological conditions

Managing in a Global Environment

Chapter 4 has been reorganised to provide a more focused and tighter discussion of globalisation of business and its influence on management practice

Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics

Chapter 5 now contains material on values-based management and the greening of management

Decision-making

Foundations of Planning

Strategic Management and

Planning Tools and techniques

Chapters 6,7,8 and 9 have undergone only minor rewriting

The examples are either new or updated from a diverse set of organisations

The selection is a balance of manufacturing and service organisations, large and small businesses, profit and not-for-profit organisations as well as including organisations from a variety of different global locations

Organisational Structure and Design

Chapter 10 comprises old Chapter 10 and 11. The material is now tighter and more focused

New material in organisational design such as the boundary-less organisation and the learning organisation as well as how modern communication technologies affect organisational design

Human Resource Management

New material on skill-based pay and broadbanding compensation, family-friendly work arrangements and the importance of dealing with occupational health and safety

Managing Change and Innovation

New material on re-engineering and managing downsized workplaces has been added

Foundations of Behaviour

Understanding Groups and Teams

These chapters have undergone minor change to the content

New examples of organisations and managers have been included

Motivating Employees

Discussion on designing motivating jobs has been moved from Chapter 11 in the old edition

The program allows lecturers to select, edit and create their own texts

Tests can be delivered in paper format or on-line

Australian Companion Website: This content rich website provides students and academics with updated current events articles on management and study guide material for students to test their understanding. www.prenhall.com/robbins_au

Student learning guide and workbook: This saleable supplement is designed to be used in conjunction with the text to support and reinforce the concepts, models and theories of OB provided within the text